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From: smith@ethos.UUCP (Gary J. Smith)
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Subject: Re: Japanese R/Ls
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Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 07:26:13 EST
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>> .. The hardware manual for my Sanyo MBC1100 (CP/M micro) talks
>> about a "flame" error bit in the CONS status byte .. I keep
>> an extinguisher handy!

> 	About 12 years ago, my company had an OKI AC-250 PABX, which was an
> early electromechanical switch.  Since OKI had just entered the U.S. telephone
> interconnect market, their doc was obviously hastily put together and
> extremely poor.  They also had technical writers and draftsmen who obviously
> had a poor command of the English language.
> 	As an example, in one whole manual what should have been the word
> ``trunk'' was misspelled ``frunk'' in EVERY instance!

On a trip to Japan a couple of years ago, I saw a number of
sweatshirts with this printed on them:

	C O R U M B I A   U N I V E R S I T Y

I kid you not.